European Universities 2030: Building Knowledge Ecosystems for Europe’s Strategic Capacity in an Age of Polycrisis

3–5 Jun 2026

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Europe/Berlin timezone

we welcome 121 participants from 16 countries, 61 presentations in 9 sessions

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Speaker List

Raluca Mihaela Bârsan (ULBS)
- Speaker at Intergenerational Memory of Fading Cultural Heritage
Kristīne Bērziņa-Cunska (University of Latvia)
- Speaker at Working While Studying: Employment Precarity, Professional Identity, and Cognitive Transformation Among University Students
Nicole Birkle (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
- Speaker at Transforming Higher Education: Governance, Values & Alliances as Strategic Systems – The Emerging Research Dimension of European University Alliances
Enzo Bivona (University of Palermo)
- Speaker at Building a Biodiversity Venture Building Platform for European Universities
Christoph Bläsi (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
- Speaker at AI, publishing and the education for the future knowledge worker labour market
Antra Boča (University of Latvia)
- Speaker at Opening of the 4th FORTHEM international conference
Justīne Bondare (Latvian Language Institute, University of Latvia)
- Speaker at Understanding Cross-Linguistic Influence: Insights from Child Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition
Justīne Bondare
- Speaker at Understanding Cross-Linguistic Influence: Insights from Child Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition
Mariia Bordian
- Speaker at ICT as a driver of sustainable business models: the moderating role of AI in retail.
- Speaker at Sustainability-Oriented Service Innovation, value co-creation and business results: Evidence from Spain
Čarna Brković (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
- Speaker at International Humanitarian Debates in the 1970s between the West, the East, and the South”
Luisa Bunescu (Higher Education Policy Analyst, European Commission, Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA))
- Speaker at Title TBC: On economic investment agenda for the universities under the EU Global Gateway stragegy
Luisa Bunescu (Higher Education Policy Analyst, European Commission, Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA))
- Speaker at On economic investment agenda for the universities under the EU Global Gateway strategy
Lorena Cano Orón (Universitat de València)
- Speaker at Between Information Saturation and Climate Experience: Citizen Narratives and Public Understanding of Climate Change in Spain
Artur Cedzich (University of Opole)
- Speaker at “Antimicrobial resistance is everyone’s responsibility!”: Pluralistic knowledge ecosystems at a time of a health crisis
Elisa Colletti (University of Palermo)
- Speaker at Civil Responsibility in Case of Damages Produced by Robots
Barbara Curylo (University of Opole)
- Speaker at European University Alliances as Platforms for Soft Power and Science Diplomacy: Insights from the FORTHEM Alliance
Joan Enguer (University of Valencia)
- Speaker at Evidence Advisory Bodies for Coastal and Marine Environmental Governance: tensions between administrative traditions and governance innovation in Mediterranean regions
- Speaker at Surviving the “Hunger Games”: Early-Career Social Science Researchers Navigating Academic Systems across Western European countries
Yolanda Estreder (University of Valencia)
- Speaker at DigIntMentoRes: Interdisciplinary mentor programme for research in a digital teaching-learning setting
Sharon Alison Ferro (Università degli studi di Palermo)
- Speaker at Governing the "Black Box": Liability, Ethics, and Human Rights in Algorithmic Medicine
Violeta Francu (University Lucian Blaga Sibiu)
- Speaker at Medical technology and its human impact – ethical considerations
Ulla Helimo
- Speaker at From Carbon Neutral to Nature Positive Higher Education Institutions
Christopher Jarvis (University of Jyväskylä)
- Speaker at Affective Tensions in AI Use in Higher Education
Mohammad Murtaza Kohistani
- Speaker at Problems with the Definition of the Refugee in International Law and Political Sciences
Maciej Krzemiński (University of Opole)
- Speaker at From Google to ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence as a New Epistemic Authority in Information
- Speaker at Media and political polarization in “Marsz Niepodległości 2025” case
Edita Lenkauskaite (Klaipeda University)
- Speaker at Sustainability Paradox of European University Alliances
Ioana Marin (University of Valencia)
- Speaker at Gendered mobility trajectories and socioeconomic positioning among Romanian immigrant women in Spain
Antonio Marín García (Facultat d'Economia, Universitat de València)
- Speaker at ICT as a driver of sustainable business models: the moderating role of AI in retail.
Hanna Markova (University of Latvia, Faculty of Social Sciences, Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences)
- Speaker at Educational Futures in Polycrisis: Ukrainian Refugee Youth Between Integration, Belonging and Transnational Human Capital
Rafał Matusiak (University of Opole, Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu)
- Speaker at From Deservingness to Precarity: Linguistic Constructions of Belonging in Polish Media Discourse on Ukrainian Refugees
Bernd Meyer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
- Speaker at Language barriers and language policies in public service institutions: Germany as a case in point
Claudio Mirabella (Università degli Studi di Palermo)
- Speaker at Hybrid Governance Against Labor Exploitation in Agri-Food Systems: Evidence from the NoCap Initiative in Italy
Halyna Mishenina (Klaipeda University)
- Speaker at Lifelong learning infrastructures for a skills-first Europe: ai literacy, micro-credentials and adaptive professional upskilling
Murtaza Mohiqi (University of Agder, Norway)
- Speaker at The University after Human Knowledge
Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska (University of Opole)
- Speaker at Making environmental sustainability issues newsworthy through advocacy journalism
Bogdan N Mucea (1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia)
- Speaker at Online schooling: A premise for digital dependency?
Nicoleta Annemarie Munteanu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)
- Speaker at Countering Hybrid Warfare Campaigns
Halyna Mykhailenko (Founder “Code of Dialogue” Interdisciplinary Research Initiative | Independent Scholar and Stakeholder, Kharkiv Ukraine)
- Speaker at Digital Ethics and Human-AI Interaction in Learning Systems: Emotionally Adaptive Dialogue Frameworks
Leila Neimane (University of Latvia)
- Speaker at Stakeholder-Based Analysis of Inland Aquaculture Development in the Baltic States: A Preliminary Research Framework
Julian Pavel (University of Latvia)
- Speaker at An Analysis of Intergroup Relations, Identities, Conflict Dialogue and Diversity Narratives on Digital Platforms from the Past Decade. Imagefare and Polarization in YouTube Commentary on the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, 2014–2023
Vija Požarnova (University of Latvia)
- Speaker at The Role of English in Multilingual Contexts: a Comparison of The Republic of India and the European Union
- Speaker at The Role of English in Multilingual Contexts: A Comparison of the Republic of India and the European Union
Gita Revalde (UL Institute of Atomic Physics)
- Speaker at Increasing use of chatbots in HE - increasing linguistic inequality?
Agnese Rusakova (Faculty of Education, Psychology and Arts)
- Speaker at Traditional universities in European University Alliances - from: Risk Management to: Opportunity Management
Mihai S. Rusu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)
- Speaker at Gendering Symbolic Space: Urban Street Names and the Politics of Visibility
Roberto Sáez-Hernández (University of Valencia)
- Speaker at How can spectral comparison support scientific decisions?
Oksana Salamin (Stepan Gzhytsky National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies of Lviv)
- Speaker at Socio-ecological systems approach to food security in Ukraine in a time of polycrisis
Martha Melinda Samson (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)
- Speaker at Will Vocal Technique Become Obsolete? Technology and the Transformation of Actor Training
Monika Sawicka (Uniwersytet Opolski)
- Speaker at Mathematics without fear: Supportive learning environments in early education
Ana Serra Perales (Universitat de València)
- Speaker at Between Information Saturation and Climate Experience: Citizen Narratives and Public Understanding of Climate Change in Spain
Uliana Shelinher (Mykolaiv National Agrarian University)
- Speaker at Knowledge Ecosystems for Sustainable Food Systems: AI and Digital Competencies in Education and Cooperation
Aleksandra Joanna Słonka (University of Opole)
- Speaker at Roblox as a digital space supporting student wellbeing
Minna Sorri (JYU)
- Speaker at Co-creative citizen science in advancing social justice: adult immigrants' perspective of language proficiency requirements and associated language testing
Delia Stefenel (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania)
- Speaker at Migration, Resilience, and War: How Do Ukrainians Narrate Survival?
Sigita Struberga (Secretary General of the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation, Head of the board of organisation "Women for Security" and researcher at the University of Latvia)
- Speaker at University as a Knowledge Ecosystem for Resilient Democracy
Kamila Styś (Doctoral School University of Opole)
- Speaker at Emotional intelligence and ambiguity tolerance as future-oriented competences in foreign language learning
Vincenzo Todaro (University of Palermo)
- Speaker at The Middle-Land of the Unrepresented Inequalities: Evidence from the Spatial Distribution of the Foreign Population in Palermo (Italy)
Dorota Wierzbicka-Próchniak (Uniwersytet Opolski)
- Speaker at From Institutional Repositories to Knowledge Ecosystems: Trust, Visibility and Epistemic Authority in Open Science
İsa Yeşildağ (University of Lodz)
- Speaker at Customers’ Perception of Using Artificial Intelligence in Art Creation and Art Management: A Comparative Analysis of Poland and Turkey
Muhammad Hamza Zafar (UiA)
- Speaker at EdgeVision: Neuromorphic Vision Based Edge-Powered Haptic Navigation System for Visually Impaired People

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